Re: 2 Node RAC Standby -- A mix of Managed Recovery and Read only?

Why you want to configure your standby databases in RAC? 2 independent standby databases may be better.

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:06:27 +0530
Sriram Kumar <k.sriramkumar_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Gurus,
>
> Firstly, I wish each and everyone of you a very happy, prosperous and
> a healthy New Year.
>
> I have a doubt regarding 2 Node RAC standby database.
>
> 1. We have a 2 Node RAC database running 9.2.0.4
> 2. We are planning to configure a 2 Node RAC standby database
> 3. I understand from the Oracle docs that only one of the Nodes in a
> RAC can be in a managed recovery mode.
>
> My question is:
>
> In the above context of one node performing a managed recovery and the
> other node being idle, can we open the second node in a read only mode
> ?. The manual says that I can't open the other node in read only mode
> but why? would like to understand any limitations of the method
>
> I had raised a TAR and the response from Oracle is
>
> <Quote>
> It sounds technically possible, but it is not in the product
> today.Recovery is done when the database is in mount state and
> readonly mode needs the database to be in open state. This state is
> linked to the database and not the instance. So, basically, it sounds
> like an potential enhancement request for future releases.
> <Unquote>
>
> Thank you for your time
>
> Best Regards
>
> Sriram Kumar
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